Pumped-up Perseus

roar-by satyariwari

Original image by satyariwari

Don’t you knock upon my door, I find you utterly scurrilous
And don’t you deign to speak to me, you who are discourteous
A pathetic poet-singer, to think yourself a second Orpheus
No romantic poet, you, but a caricature hilarious
My, but you stand upon a pedestal precarious:
That you consider yourself the worthiest;
That of you any other would be envious.
You wonder that I dumped you at the earliest?
Fortunate you, I am no murderess
Else I’d swing for you, you jumped-up Perseus
So now take note and walk away, for to your pleas I am impervious


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What Pegman Saw: Pixie Led

Patagonia by Karman Garcia

Patagonia by Karman Garcia in Google Maps

The pixie lit upon my bed
and whispered softly near my head
‘If come with me this moonlit night
I’ll show a wonder to delight.’
Then up I got and followed true,
through woods, o’er moor, across the blue,
to the farthest ends of Earth,
to see this gem of surpassing worth.


Written for What Pegman Saw (Patagonia)
Cos to me, this looks like an opal. diamond-cut

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Sunday Fungi: Done and Dusted

My chosen title here is obvious. Something has given this fungus and accompanying herbage a thorough dusting. My guess is it’s fungus spores.

Sunday Fungi 22 March

Spore-dusted fungi: 17th September 2018

 

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The Market Cross

Mark my confesion: It wasn’t intentional, it was quite accidental, my attention down rather than up. in my need to exclude the non-consenting general public I lopped off the cross at the top.

Wymondham Market Cross

Wymondham Market Cross (absent the cross): 26th February 2019

Though neither round nor square, I claim this neither/nor octagon for the #2019picoftheweek title: Square/Round.

[For details of #2019picoftheweek challenge see MariaAntonia]

Wymondham Market Cross dates to 1617, when it replaced the previous cross that, alas, had been crisped and charred in a fire. The arsonists later paid their dues here (tried, sentenced and hanged).

Why a market cross? Well, these originally stood in the churchyard, where all markets, fairs, land transactions and marriages occurred … deals made in the sight of God were considered secure. But in C14th the Church got uppitty and said enough’s enough, there’s to be no more. And so the market crosses were moved to sites more secular. Some, like this one, then grew to be notable places. Here the guilds met. Here the taxes were paid. Here disputes were settled. And here the criminals tried.

The upper chamber now functions as the Tourist Information Office.

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CCC19: The Hill is Steep

High Noon

Crimson’s Creative Challenge CCC#19

The way is steep, the day is hot
A foot-weary slog to reach the top
I check my watch, what do I see?
Oh. it’s 12 o’clock!


Written for Crimson’s Creative Challenge #19

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #19

high noon

CCC#19

Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN

Here’s how it works:

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:

  • Your creative offering is indeed yours
  • Your writing is kept to 150 words or less

If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory)
If you tag it #CCC others should be able to find it by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN.

Details of the photo are given, if relevant, below this line


Roadsign found on eastern reach of Mousehold Heath (Norwich, Norfolk)

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I’ll Give It a Miss

Yet another sunset over Breydon

Yet another sunset over Breydon

Oh Sammi, Sammi, Sammi dear
What a project set
I’ve thought and thought and thought and thought
But I’ve had no inspiration yet

The solstices, they’re no problem
Summer and winter too
For those I’ll easily whip up a rhyme
I might even whip you up two

But these equinoxes are plain dithering different
And yet they’re not really, cos they’re the same
Equal, see; equal day and equal night
Equal dark and equal light
Blistering difficult this

I’ll give it a miss

 

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Prompt: Equinox in 83 words

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Four Funerals and a Wedding

Wicklow by Positive Aging

What a week. Four funerals attended, done nothing but rain. But come Saturday week I don’t care if the sun does hide. For then strong-limbed  young Bridget becomes my flame-headed Bride.


Oops, not Rams Island, not even Northern Ireland.

My take is set in Wicklow, just south of Dublin. Why? Cos I once knew a guy from there who lamented an entire summer school holiday (2 months, no less) of non-stop rain. He said that’s what Ireland’s so green.

Wrotten for What Pegman Saw

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Sunday Fungi: Cream-Tinted

Sunday Fungi 3 in1

Photo: 11 Oct 2017

The paler fungi, especially those that are mushroom-coloured, aren’t the easiest subjects. They catch and reflect too much light. So I was happy with this little cluster came out right.

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Which Way?

The photo says it all

Which Way

The essentials … 26th February 2019

I walk. A lot. Outside of towns, along country paths, over meadows, trailing through woods. Miles away from the nearest convenience.

And so this photo, Which Way (to go …)

[For details of #2019picoftheweek challenge  see MariaAntonia]

 

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